1 Month Old!

It's halftime of the K-State game so I figured I'd do a quick post...

How quickly and slowly this past month has gone by! It's gone by fast but also seems like FOREVER ago we were being held hostage in the hospital. :) Here are some quick pictures of Ryan and the girls.


8 Days... 1 Month!

Emerson's favorite hangout at about 8:30 every night.
Showing her Irish spirit.
This is how we celebrated St. Paddy's Day. Cheers! My brother showed up at the hospital with 2 different matching outfits for the girls. How sweet is that?

Newborn Pics

We had Easton's newborn session a week and a half ago and the pics are absolutely adorable. Corey took some amazing pictures and she has a blog set up on her website- the link is below. Scroll down until you get to Baby Easton Is Here! She posted some of the highlights! Enjoy!

http://coreybrownphoto.wordpress.com/

Things are good here on the homefront- we're getting settled into a schedule- as much as you can schedule a newborn. Easton will be a month old tomorrow and she's growing so fast I can already tell. Emerson has been really great for the most part. She's pretty indifferent about her little sister which is a good thing, she just kind of does her own thing and leaves Easton alone.
Although today Easton was laying on the living room floor and Emerson gave her a big hug and said, "love her soooo much!" I told her to remember that when she's 16... :)

I'll try to update soon!

2 Weeks Old

We've been home a week now and we're all getting adjusted. It's great to have Emerson back in a routine, be it a new one, but it's SO good to be around her all the time. We're doing good! Here are some random pictures from the hospital and our first week home.

One of our first family pics- hilarious...

Getting ready to go home!

Her first baby parade pic at 8 days old. Whose baby is this??? :)

Uncle Cole, Aunt Sarah and Uncle Chris came for a visit last weekend. We had a ton of fun- with hairbows also as you can see...


I hear a baby crying- till next time!

We're Home!

We got home yesterday (Tuesday) and we're getting used to our new family of 4. I'll post pictures when I can but it may be awhile!!! Thanks for all your phone calls, texts, and well wishes. I'll try my best to stay in touch these next couple of weeks but I know these girls will keep me on my toes!

Our Hospital Flowers Are Wilting...

A sign we've been here way too long. Good news, bad news AGAIN. Her numbers (what numbers you ask? I'm not even sure what they're called. Billirubin numbers? Anywho) are down again to a 10 something which is GREAT but they still want to monitor her here in the hospital. They've got her down to 1 light and her IV is out completely which makes feeding her MUCH easier so that's good. They're bringing her down to our room at 4 for good and we'll have her on our own until they check her again tomorrow morning. The pediatrician will tell us then that (hopefully) her numbers are stable and we can GO HOME! So things are looking good- just ONE MORE DAY!

When we first had to take Easton to the NICU on Friday I was asking a nurse when she thought we'd be able to take her home. (I was hoping the very next day.) She said, "I wouldn't count on anything until Tuesday." I thought she was crazy at the time but she was right! But fortunately that's tomorrow and Easton will be just fine. It'll be fun having her in our room tonight- I'm a little nervous!!!

I know my posts will come to a screeching halt for these next couple of weeks but I'll update when I can!

I'm running out of pictures to post but here are some I don't think I've done.

Good News

Easton's levels are coming down- a very good thing. We have to stay again tonight (Sunday) but the pediatrician will see her in the morning and he'll tell us when we'll be able to go home. She's off of her IV and we're able to nurse her in our room instead of the NICU, which is wonderful. They've also reduced her lights from 5 to 2 so she's not getting quite so dehydrated.



I know Easton will be just fine and that we'll be home soon- I'm just missing Emerson more and more. I had prepared myself for only 2 days and nights away from her and I had never been away from her for more than that. That amount of time has more than doubled now and it's tough only seeing her for a couple of hours or so a day here at the hospital. I just want to be home with Ryan and my girls!!!! Soon enough...

Easton's home since Friday.

My BF Fran came to visit last night and you can see her influence has begun... We joked that Easton looks more like her daughter than mine with all that dark hair! Our 4 girls are going to have so much fun together...

We put one of Emerson's socks over her IV- they're already sharing!

Emerson and Ryan's parents came up today for a visit.

We let her push "Baby East-End" back to the NICU.


We'll know more for sure tomorrow and I'll post the info then!

More Pictures of Easton and an Update

Well, we've got some more time to post pictures because we're still in the hospital. Emerson had jaundice so we had that on our radars but Easton has a pretty nasty bout of it. We are just thankful they caught it before we were released- with Emerson they didn't until we were home and had to do the in-home light therapy which was a pain. So Easton is in the NICU under the billi-lights 24-7 and we go to nurse her every 3 hours. Hence the abundance of time on our hands! She's had an IV of fluids since last night and her numbers have stabilized since then so I think things are on the upswing. We have to stay for sure tonight but I'm hoping we're home by tomorrow evening. Fingers crossed. Like the NICU nurse said, your baby is the least sick of these other kiddos so Ryan and I are just trying to put everything in perspective. I know she'll be just fine and I'm glad they caught it when they did. I'm even more anxious to get her home and just lay with her on the floor!

Ryan's parents are here from Iowa to relieve my mom who has had Emerson (and done an EXCELLENT job by the way) since I called her early Wednesday morning and Ryan and I are just waiting until tomorrow morning (Sunday) to see how Easton's levels are. We'll go from there.

By the way- all these great pictures are Ryan's doing, not mine. He's done a great job taking pictures but I can't take credit!

I'll have Easton's birthday story up probably tomorrow while we wait around for results. I need to get it written down before I forget! I never did get to writing down Emerson's...

So keep us in your thoughts but Easton will be just fine and hopefully we'll be home with her very soon.

I'm glad we took a ton of pics right away because we haven't gotten to take any in a couple of days because she's in her isolette. :(

"I hold her?"

"Cheese!"

We are just LOVING all her long black hair! So cute...